I could not bring myself to spend upwards of $700.00 for an awning, so I began experimenting with a few ideas. Here's what I came up with...
MY HOMEMADE AWNING
MY HOMEMADE AWNING
I'm not sure how long the tent pole is. I just pulled it out of my REI Hobitat 4 tent that I have in the garage.ETAV8R said:Too cool. Well done.
How long is the tent pole?
How is the tent pole affixed to the tarp?
Thanks jeromehdmc. If you can improve upon the design, please post it!jeromehdmc said:Awesome awning. I may be "borrowing" your idea. The Eagle came with an awning but this would be great for the times I take the Subie car camping. Thanks for sharing
I'm thinking of getting a second tarp the same size as the one I will be using. Then, I can use one of the carabiners and the pin on top of the tent pole to hang it from one side or the other to form a "wall" (or use both poles to have the wall on the side away from the truck.) The pins on the tent poles are long enough to accommodate two eyelets, guy lines, etc. without problem.GroovyDad said:I even thought about attaching (with Velcro) a removable wall that I could slap on whatever side the sun was on, but that seemed to only complicate my whole system, so I just kept it simple. I think I can mange more shade by simply parking my truck parallel with the east/west track of the sun.
Whereas, now that I've figured out how to put a tarp awning on either side, I'd like to figure out how to use the smaller tarp as a rain porch across the back.ntsqd said:This thread has me thinking to move our tarp awning to the side, maybe set up to be able to put it on either side.
For the guy ropes I use something akin to 550 cord, big framing spikes for stakes, and some of these for tensioning: http://www.montanacanvas.com/products/rope-tension-adjusters I put the loop over the pin in the top of the poles and leave a bowline on the other end of the line to pound the stake thru.